Zonghai Yao

77 papers A* 9Misc 1Journal 49Unranked 18
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
ChatCLIDS: Simulating Persuasive AI Dialogues to Promote Closed-Loop Insulin Adoption in Type 1 Diabetes Care.
AAAI
Zonghai Yao, Talha Chafekar, Junda Wang, Shuo Han, Feiyun Ouyang, Junhui Qian, Lingxi Li, Hong Yu
2026 — conf
Knowing When to Abstain: Medical LLMs Under Clinical Uncertainty.
EACL (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Sravanthi Machcha, Sushrita Yerra, Sahil Gupta, Aishwarya Sahoo, Sharmin Sultana, Hong Yu, Zonghai Yao
2026 J jnl
Knowing When to Abstain: Medical LLMs Under Clinical Uncertainty.
CoRR
Sravanthi Machcha, Sushrita Yerra, Sahil Gupta, Aishwarya Sahoo, Sharmin Sultana, Hong Yu, Zonghai Yao
2026 — conf
MedQA-CS: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)-Style Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Clinical Skills.
EACL (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zonghai Yao, Zihao Zhang, Chaolong Tang, Xingyu Bian, Youxia Zhao, Zhichao Yang, Junda Wang, Huixue Zhou, Won Seok Jang, Feiyun Ouyang, Hong Yu
2026 A* conf
PRIME: Planning and Retrieval-Integrated Memory for Enhanced Reasoning.
AAAI
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Nguyen Luong Tran, Zhichao Yang, Feiyun Ouyang, Shuo Han, Razieh Rahimi, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
ChatCLIDS: Simulating Persuasive AI Dialogues to Promote Closed-Loop Insulin Adoption in Type 1 Diabetes Care.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Talha Chafekar, Junda Wang, Shuo Han, Feiyun Ouyang, Junhui Qian, Lingxi Li, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
ChatThero: An LLM-Supported Chatbot for Behavior Change and Therapeutic Support in Addiction Recovery.
CoRR
Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, Lingxi Li, Junhui Qian, Hong Yu
2025 — conf
Chatbot To Help Patients Understand Their Health.
EMNLP (Findings)
Won Seok Jang, Hieu Tran, Manav Mistry, SaiKiran Gandluri, Yifan Zhang, Sharmin Sultana, Sunjae Kwon, Yuan Zhang, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
Chatbot To Help Patients Understand Their Health.
CoRR
Won Seok Jang, Hieu Tran, Manav Mistry, SaiKiran Gandluri, Yifan Zhang, Sharmin Sultana, Sunjae Kown, Yuan Zhang, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2025 A* conf
DischargeSim: A Simulation Benchmark for Educational Doctor-Patient Communication at Discharge.
EMNLP
Zonghai Yao, Michael Sun, Won Seok Jang, Sunjae Kwon, Soie Kwon, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
DischargeSim: A Simulation Benchmark for Educational Doctor-Patient Communication at Discharge.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Michael Sun, Won Seok Jang, Sunjae Kwon, Soie Kwon, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
Enhancing LLMs for Identifying and Prioritizing Important Medical Jargons from Electronic Health Record Notes Utilizing Data Augmentation.
CoRR
Won Seok Jang, Sharmin Sultana, Zonghai Yao, Hieu Tran, Zhichao Yang, Sunjae Kwon, Hong Yu
2025 — conf
Enhancing Multilingual Medical Summarization via Contextual Keyword Augmentation.
CLEF (Working Notes)
Md. Shahidul Salim, Lianne Fu, Arav Adikesh Ramakrishnan, Sunjae Kwon, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
Exploiting Tree Structure for Credit Assignment in RL Training of LLMs.
CoRR
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2025 A* conf
From Scores to Steps: Diagnosing and Improving LLM Performance in Evidence-Based Medical Calculations.
EMNLP
Benlu Wang, Iris Xia, Yifan Zhang, Junda Wang, Feiyun Ouyang, Shuo Han, Arman Cohan, Hong Yu, Zonghai Yao
2025 J jnl
From Scores to Steps: Diagnosing and Improving LLM Performance in Evidence-Based Medical Calculations.
CoRR
Benlu Wang, Iris Xia, Yifan Zhang, Junda Wang, Feiyun Ouyang, Shuo Han, Arman Cohan, Hong Yu, Zonghai Yao
2025 J jnl
Iterative Critique-Refine Framework for Enhancing LLM Personalization.
CoRR
Durga Prasad Maram, Dhruvin Gandhi, Zonghai Yao, Gayathri Akkinapalli, Franck Dernoncourt, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Nesreen K. Ahmed
2025 — conf
MCQG-SRefine: Multiple Choice Question Generation and Evaluation with Iterative Self-Critique, Correction, and Comparison Feedback.
NAACL (Long Papers)
Zonghai Yao, Aditya Parashar, Huixue Zhou, Won Seok Jang, Feiyun Ouyang, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2025 — conf
MedCOD: Enhancing English-to-Spanish Medical Translation of Large Language Models Using Enriched Chain-of-Dictionary Framework.
EMNLP (Findings)
Md. Shahidul Salim, Lian Fu, Arav Adikesh Ramakrishnan, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
MedCOD: Enhancing English-to-Spanish Medical Translation of Large Language Models Using Enriched Chain-of-Dictionary Framework.
CoRR
Md. Shahidul Salim, Lian Fu, Arav Adikesh Ramakrishnan, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
MedReadCtrl: Personalizing medical text generation with readability-controlled instruction learning.
CoRR
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Won Seok Jang, Sharmin Sultana, Allen Chang, Yuan Zhang, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
PRIME: Planning and Retrieval-Integrated Memory for Enhanced Reasoning.
CoRR
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Nguyen Luong Tran, Zhichao Yang, Feiyun Ouyang, Shuo Han, Razieh Rahimi, Hong Yu
2025 — conf
RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models.
ACL (1)
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, Junda Wang, Yifan Zhang, Shuo Han, Feiyun Ouyang, Hong Yu
2025 J jnl
SynthEHR-Eviction: Enhancing Eviction SDoH Detection with LLM-Augmented Synthetic EHR Data.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Youxia Zhao, Avijit Mitra, David A. Levy, Emily Druhl, Jack Tsai, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
BioInstruct: instruction tuning of large language models for biomedical natural language processing.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Hieu Tran, Zhichao Yang, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
Blocks Architecture (BloArk): Efficient, Cost-Effective, and Incremental Dataset Architecture for Wikipedia Revision History.
CoRR
Lingxi Li, Zonghai Yao, Sunjae Kwon, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
CS4: Measuring the Creativity of Large Language Models Automatically by Controlling the Number of Story-Writing Constraints.
CoRR
Anirudh Atmakuru, Jatin Nainani, Rohith Siddhartha Reddy Bheemreddy, Anirudh Lakkaraju, Zonghai Yao, Hamed Zamani, Haw-Shiuan Chang
2024 — conf
Do Clinicians Know How to Prompt? The Need for Automatic Prompt Optimization Help in Clinical Note Generation.
BioNLP@ACL
Zonghai Yao, Ahmed Jaafar, Beining Wang, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
JMLR: Joint Medical LLM and Retrieval Training for Enhancing Reasoning and Professional Question Answering Capability.
CoRR
Junda Wang, Zhichao Yang, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
Large Language Model-based Role-Playing for Personalized Medical Jargon Extraction.
CoRR
Jung Hoon Lim, Sunjae Kwon, Zonghai Yao, John P. Lalor, Hong Yu
2024 — conf
Large Language Models are In-context Teachers for Knowledge Reasoning.
EMNLP (Findings)
Jiachen Zhao, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2024 — conf
LocalTweets to LocalHealth: A Mental Health Surveillance Framework Based on Twitter Data.
LREC/COLING
Vijeta Deshpande, Minhwa Lee, Zonghai Yao, Zihao Zhang, Jason Brian Gibbons, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
LocalTweets to LocalHealth: A Mental Health Surveillance Framework Based on Twitter Data.
CoRR
Vijeta Deshpande, Minhwa Lee, Zonghai Yao, Zihao Zhang, Jason Brian Gibbons, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
MCQG-SRefine: Multiple Choice Question Generation and Evaluation with Iterative Self-Critique, Correction, and Comparison Feedback.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Aditya Parashar, Huixue Zhou, Won Seok Jang, Feiyun Ouyang, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
MedQA-CS: Benchmarking Large Language Models Clinical Skills Using an AI-SCE Framework.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Zihao Zhang, Chaolong Tang, Xingyu Bian, Youxia Zhao, Zhichao Yang, Junda Wang, Huixue Zhou, Won Seok Jang, Feiyun Ouyang, Hong Yu
2024 — conf
NoteChat: A Dataset of Synthetic Patient-Physician Conversations Conditioned on Clinical Notes.
ACL (Findings)
Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, Huixue Zhou, Rumeng Li, Xun Wang, Yucheng Xu, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models.
CoRR
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Junda Wang, Yifan Zhang, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2024 — conf
README: Bridging Medical Jargon and Lay Understanding for Patient Education through Data-Centric NLP.
EMNLP (Findings)
Zonghai Yao, Nandyala Siddharth Kantu, Guanghao Wei, Hieu Tran, Zhangqi Duan, Sunjae Kwon, Zhichao Yang, README annotation team, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
ReadCtrl: Personalizing text generation with readability-controlled instruction learning.
CoRR
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Lingxi Li, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
RiTeK: A Dataset for Large Language Models Complex Reasoning over Textual Knowledge Graphs.
CoRR
Jiatan Huang, Mingchen Li, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, Yongkang Xiao, Feiyun Ouyang, Xiaohan Li, Shuo Han, Hong Yu
2024 A* conf
SYNFAC-EDIT: Synthetic Imitation Edit Feedback for Factual Alignment in Clinical Summarization.
EMNLP
Prakamya Mishra, Zonghai Yao, Parth Vashisht, Feiyun Ouyang, Beining Wang, Vidhi Dhaval Mody, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
SYNFAC-EDIT: Synthetic Imitation Edit Feedback for Factual Alignment in Clinical Summarization.
CoRR
Prakamya Mishra, Zonghai Yao, Parth Vashisht, Feiyun Ouyang, Beining Wang, Vidhi Dhaval Mody, Hong Yu
2024 A* conf
TiV-ODE: A Neural ODE-based Approach for Controllable Video Generation From Text-Image Pairs.
ICRA
Yucheng Xu, Nanbo Li, Arushi Goel, Zonghai Yao, Zijian Guo, Hamidreza Kasaei, Mohammadreza Kasaei, Zhibin Li
2024 — conf
UMass-BioNLP at MEDIQA-M3G 2024: DermPrompt - A Systematic Exploration of Prompt Engineering with GPT-4V for Dermatological Diagnosis.
ClinicalNLP@NAACL
Parth Vashisht, Abhilasha Lodha, Mukta Maddipatla, Zonghai Yao, Avijit Mitra, Zhichao Yang, Sunjae Kwon, Junda Wang, Hong Yu
2024 J jnl
UMass-BioNLP at MEDIQA-M3G 2024: DermPrompt - A Systematic Exploration of Prompt Engineering with GPT-4V for Dermatological Diagnosis.
CoRR
Parth Vashisht, Abhilasha Lodha, Mukta Maddipatla, Zonghai Yao, Avijit Mitra, Zhichao Yang, Junda Wang, Sunjae Kwon, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
Automated identification of eviction status from electronic health record notes.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Zonghai Yao, Jack Tsai, Weisong Liu, David A. Levy, Emily Druhl, Joel I. Reisman, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
BioInstruct: Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models for Biomedical Natural Language Processing.
CoRR
Hieu Tran, Zhichao Yang, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
Controllable Video Generation by Learning the Underlying Dynamical System with Neural ODE.
CoRR
Yucheng Xu, Nanbo Li, Arushi Goel, Zijian Guo, Zonghai Yao, Hamidreza Kasaei, Mohammadreza Kasaei, Zhibin Li
2023 J jnl
Do Physicians Know How to Prompt? The Need for Automatic Prompt Optimization Help in Clinical Note Generation.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Ahmed Jaafar, Beining Wang, Yue Zhu, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
EHR Interaction Between Patients and AI: NoteAid EHR Interaction.
CoRR
Xiaocheng Zhang, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
EHRTutor: Enhancing Patient Understanding of Discharge Instructions.
CoRR
Zihao Zhang, Zonghai Yao, Huixue Zhou, Feiyun Ouyang, Hong Yu
2023 A* conf
Improving Summarization with Human Edits.
EMNLP
Zonghai Yao, Benjamin J. Schloss, Sai P. Selvaraj
2023 J jnl
Improving Summarization with Human Edits.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Benjamin J. Schloss, Sai P. Selvaraj
2023 A* conf
Multi-Label Few-Shot ICD Coding as Autoregressive Generation with Prompt.
AAAI
Zhichao Yang, Sunjae Kwon, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
NoteChat: A Dataset of Synthetic Doctor-Patient Conversations Conditioned on Clinical Notes.
CoRR
Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, Huixue Zhou, Rumeng Li, Xun Wang, Yucheng Xu, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
PaniniQA: Enhancing Patient Education Through Interactive Question Answering.
CoRR
Pengshan Cai, Zonghai Yao, Fei Liu, Dakuo Wang, Meghan Reilly, Huixue Zhou, Lingxi Li, Yi Cao, Alok Kapoor, Adarsha Bajracharya, Dan Berlowitz, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
PaniniQA: Enhancing Patient Education Through Interactive Question Answering.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics
Pengshan Cai, Zonghai Yao, Fei Liu, Dakuo Wang, Meghan Reilly, Huixue Zhou, Lingxi Li, Yi Cao, Alok Kapoor, Adarsha Bajracharya, Dan Berlowitz, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
README: Bridging Medical Jargon and Lay Understanding for Patient Education through Data-Centric NLP.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Nandyala Siddharth Kantu, Guanghao Wei, Hieu Tran, Zhangqi Duan, Sunjae Kwon, Zhichao Yang, README annotation team, Hong Yu
2023 — conf
Revisiting the Architectures like Pointer Networks to Efficiently Improve the Next Word Distribution, Summarization Factuality, and Beyond.
ACL (Findings)
Haw-Shiuan Chang, Zonghai Yao, Alolika Gon, Hong Yu, Andrew McCallum
2023 J jnl
Revisiting the Architectures like Pointer Networks to Efficiently Improve the Next Word Distribution, Summarization Factuality, and Beyond.
CoRR
Haw-Shiuan Chang, Zonghai Yao, Alolika Gon, Hong Yu, Andrew McCallum
2023 J jnl
SELF-EXPLAIN: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason Complex Questions by Themselves.
CoRR
Jiachen Zhao, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
Synthetic Imitation Edit Feedback for Factual Alignment in Clinical Summarization.
CoRR
Prakamya Mishra, Zonghai Yao, Shuwei Chen, Beining Wang, Rohan Mittal, Hong Yu
2023 — conf
UMASS_BioNLP at MEDIQA-Chat 2023: Can LLMs generate high-quality synthetic note-oriented doctor-patient conversations?
ClinicalNLP@ACL
Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Avijit Mitra, Samuel Osebe, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2023 J jnl
UMASS_BioNLP at MEDIQA-Chat 2023: Can LLMs generate high-quality synthetic note-oriented doctor-patient conversations?
CoRR
Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Avijit Mitra, Samuel Osebe, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2022 J jnl
Automated Identification of Eviction Status from Electronic Health Record Notes.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Jack Tsai, Weisong Liu, David A. Levy, Emily Druhl, Joel I. Reisman, Hong Yu
2022 J jnl
Context Variance Evaluation of Pretrained Language Models for Prompt-based Biomedical Knowledge Probing.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Yi Cao, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu
2022 Misc conf
Extracting Biomedical Factual Knowledge Using Pretrained Language Model and Electronic Health Record Context.
AMIA
Zonghai Yao, Yi Cao, Zhichao Yang, Vijeta Deshpande, Hong Yu
2022 J jnl
Extracting Biomedical Factual Knowledge Using Pretrained Language Model and Electronic Health Record Context.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Yi Cao, Zhichao Yang, Vijeta Deshpande, Hong Yu
2022 A* conf
MedJEx: A Medical Jargon Extraction Model with Wiki's Hyperlink Span and Contextualized Masked Language Model Score.
EMNLP
Sunjae Kwon, Zonghai Yao, Harmon S. Jordan, David A. Levy, Brian Corner, Hong Yu
2022 J jnl
MedJEx: A Medical Jargon Extraction Model with Wiki's Hyperlink Span and Contextualized Masked Language Model Score.
CoRR
Sunjae Kwon, Zonghai Yao, Harmon S. Jordan, David A. Levy, Brian Corner, Hong Yu
2022 J jnl
Multi-label Few-shot ICD Coding as Autoregressive Generation with Prompt.
CoRR
Zhichao Yang, Sunjae Kwon, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2021 — conf
Improving Formality Style Transfer with Context-Aware Rule Injection.
ACL/IJCNLP (1)
Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2021 J jnl
Improving Formality Style Transfer with Context-Aware Rule Injection.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu
2021 J jnl
Named Entity Location Prediction Combining Twitter and Web.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Yinan Liu, Wei Shen, Zonghai Yao, Jianyong Wang, Zhenglu Yang, Xiaojie Yuan
2020 — conf
The impact of preprint servers in the formation of novel ideas.
SDP@EMNLP
Swarup Satish, Zonghai Yao, Andrew Drozdov, Boris Veytsman
2020 — conf
Zero-shot Entity Linking with Efficient Long Range Sequence Modeling.
EMNLP (Findings)
Zonghai Yao, Liangliang Cao, Huapu Pan
2020 J jnl
Zero-shot Entity Linking with Efficient Long Range Sequence Modeling.
CoRR
Zonghai Yao, Liangliang Cao, Huapu Pan